Conventional and food‐to‐food fortification: An appraisal of past practices and lessons learned

Food fortification is an important nutrition intervention to fight micronutrient deficiencies and to reduce their incidence in many low‐ and middle‐income countries. Food fortification approaches experienced a significant rise in the recent years and have generated a lot of criticism. The present re...

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Autores principales: Chadare, Flora Josiane, Idohou, Rodrigue, Nago, Eunice, Affonfere, Marius, Agossadou, Julienne, Fassinou, Toyi Kévin, Kénou, Christel, Honfo, Sewanou, Azokpota, Paulin, Linnemann, Anita R., Hounhouigan, Djidjoho J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6766603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31576203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.1133
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Sumario:Food fortification is an important nutrition intervention to fight micronutrient deficiencies and to reduce their incidence in many low‐ and middle‐income countries. Food fortification approaches experienced a significant rise in the recent years and have generated a lot of criticism. The present review aimed to shed light on the actual effect of food fortification approaches on the reduction of malnutrition. A set of 100 articles and reports, which have dealt with the impact of food fortification on malnutrition, were included in this review. This review identified a broad selection of local raw materials suitable for a food‐to‐food fortification approach.

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